The top 0.01 percent of Americans gave nearly 42 percent of all political donation dollars in the 2012 election cycle. Photo Credit: crowdpac Forget the…
Economic inequality
At this stage of the game you have to be exceedingly dim or incredibly delusional to think that Hillary Clinton is a progressive. Her record…
For many years inequality in income and wealth received little attention in public debate and was only a minority interest in the economics profession. GDP…
Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, a highly visible champion of Seattle’s $15/hour minimum wage, wrote a piece in the Atlantic last month pushing on another front…
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 2015 (IPS) - The growing economic inequalities between rich and poor – and the lopsided concentration of wealth and power in the…
The yawning racial wealth gap in the United States is no accident, but rather, driven by unjust public policy decisions—from the re-segregation of education to…
As labor unions have declined in most countries around the world, CEO paychecks have ballooned. And that’s not just a coincidence, according to new research…